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  • Hi again. Welcome back to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. Today's lesson is about getting you in shape.

  • What does that mean? It means going to the gym and exercising,

  • and all the vocabulary you need to do that well. If you go to the gym and you need to speak to a personal trainer

  • or a fitness coach, he or she will use these words to help you get a very nice body.

  • So let's start with these. First of all, most people who go to the gym want to "get in shape".

  • It doesn't mean they want to become square or a circle or a triangle. It means they want

  • to have a good body, and also to feel healthy. They want to breathe easier, they want to

  • be able to walk or run for a longer time, they want to be able to feel good about their physical condition.

  • Now, a lot of people also go to the gym because they want these things. They want to be "fit".

  • "Fit" basically means healthy. Some people want to get "toned". They want some lines

  • here and there; they don't want to be round. They want more lines, a little bit more showing muscles

  • a little bit less showing fat.

  • Some people want to get "cut". Now, "cut" means that you see all the lines where all

  • the muscles are or should be, because you've worked out a lot. You have very little fat, more muscle.

  • Now, some people want to get "shredded". "Shredded" means like very, very, very cut.

  • So if you think, for example, Brad Pitt, in the movie Fight Club, he was shredded.

  • Very little fat, all muscle, and cut in all the right places.

  • Then if you say someone is "jacked", then you think of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

  • Before he was a politician, a little bit before he was an actor, he was a bodybuilder.

  • He was "jacked"; he had huge muscles everywhere. "Ripped" and "shredded" basically mean the same thing.

  • These are all slang words for "toned", basically. And everybody wants like a "six-pack abs".

  • They want one, two, three, four, five, six. You have to work very hard for that

  • You have to get rid of a lot of fat to get all the muscles to show up.

  • Keep in mind: all of these things, they're more about a lifestyle than about exercising,

  • but you have to exercise to get all these things.

  • Okay, so what can you do to exercise? You can "work out". One thing you can do,

  • you can walk around your house every day after dinner and, you know, work your digestive system.

  • All the food you ate goes to the right places, everything okay. But you can also

  • "work out", means you go to the "gym" where they have all the weights, all the machines,

  • you can exercise. "Work out", exercise.

  • Why? Because you want to get rid of your "spare tire". Now, this happens a lot more to men,

  • but a spare tire. So, you know in your car if you have a flat tire, in the back, you

  • have a spare tire? So imagine carrying that spare tire around your stomach.

  • You're skinny, skinny, skinny, fat, skinny, skinny, skinny, skinny. That's your spare tire.

  • Now, men also have "love handles", you can grab them on the side and you can play with them.

  • I won't explain too much where the "love handle" term comes from, but that's what they're called.

  • Women, on the other hand, it's called a "muffin top". Because you know when you have a muffin,

  • there's the paper, and then-whoop-it comes out? So if you're wearing really tight jeans

  • and then a little bit sticks out, that's your muffin top. So, you go to the gym,

  • you wantto get rid of all these things.

  • Some people want to "bulk up", means they want to get bigger. They want to "build muscle". Muscle.

  • Some people want to "slim down", means they want to get thinner. They want to "burn fat".

  • So you build muscle, you burn fat. Ideally, you do both at the same time. And, of course,

  • more important than all of this: diet. You have to stop eating McDonalds,

  • you have to stop eating pizza, you have to stop eating bad food if you want to get any of these things.

  • Now, what can you do at the gym? You can do "weights". "Weights" means like actual physical,

  • heavy things that you lift, etc., you do all kinds of things with them. Or you could do "cardio".

  • "Cardio" is short for "cardiovascular", it means working the lungs, working the inside,

  • getting the body, the blood to flow properly, getting your air passages to open and close properly.

  • One thing you can do for cardio is "aerobics", so you know, like jumping jacks,

  • and all that stuff, and running, and all these things, exercises on the floor.

  • You do only with your body and a lot of movement to get the inside to burn fat.

  • Now, you can also do the "treadmill". This is one machine. It's a machine that you stand on.

  • It has like a belt, and you just walk. You don't go anywhere; you just walk, walk, walk for an hour.

  • You burn a lot of fat. "Burn a lot of calories" is more correct,

  • and hopefully slim down.

  • Now, if you want to bulk up, if you want to build muscle, you have to do things like "push ups".

  • "Push ups" on the floor, you're basically almost lying down on the floor, and with your arms,

  • you push yourself up. This is the floor. Okay? Or you could do "pull ups".

  • On a bar, u pull yourself up. Pull yourself up and down.

  • Or you can use "barbells" or "dumbbells". What's the difference between a barbell and a dumbbell?

  • A barbell has a long bar with however much weight you put on them,

  • and you lift them up, do whatever. Dumbbells are similar, but they're smaller.

  • So you grab with one hand and one hand, or you can just do one hand, and you can do all kinds of lifts with the dumbbell.

  • You can also use "cables". These are like machines, but it's like a metal wire,

  • and you use them to pull, or push, or whatever you need to do, whatever muscle group you want to work.

  • And then you can do a "bench press". So a "bench" is basically a bench; you sit on it,

  • you lie down on it, and you... You're lying down, and you're pushing the barbell up and

  • down, or the dumbbell, or whatever you need to do.

  • Now, what we do with when we do weights, we do "sets" and "reps". "Reps" is short for "repetitions".

  • So, for example, if you're doing curls, if you're lifting up the dumbbell,

  • you do 12 reps, and you do it three times, so three sets. Each set has 12 reps. Okay?

  • So, now, if you go to the gym and you want to get shredded or you want to get jacked

  • or you want to just slim down, you know what to tell the trainers or what to tell the people

  • there who are helping you out. More importantly, what to tell yourself.

  • Now, if you want to practice these words, go to www.engvid.com.

  • There's a quiz there to help you practice these words. You can ask questions in the comment section.

  • And, of course, come back and visit us again. Don't forget to join my... To subscribe to my YouTube channel.

  • See you again soon. Bye.

Hi again. Welcome back to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. Today's lesson is about getting you in shape.

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